Here For Good :: Synoikodomeisthe // Chris Holm

We opened this series with a building campaign and a question worth sitting with: why are we really doing this?The answer starts in Isaiah 54, where God tells a barren woman with no household and no future to enlarge her tent. Not someday. Now. Before a single person has arrived. God sees who is coming before she does, and he invites her to act on that word before the evidence shows up. That pattern runs all the way through Scripture. Abraham, Gideon, Noah, Mary. People acting on a word about a future they cannot see but God already has.Vision, in this series, means a specific person. Not a floor plan. Every decision we make over the coming months gets made with a face in mind.In Luke 14, the host of a great banquet refuses to scale back when the invited guests make absurd excuses. He sends his servant into the streets, the alleys, the roads, the country lanes. Bring in everyone. The reason is simple: the host wants a full table. The Spirit goes ahead of us into those spaces. We are not manufacturing spiritual hunger. We are pointing to a seat and saying, the host wants you here.We are not just solving a square footage problem. We are cutting stone, knowing what the stone is for. Fifty-four years of God doing exactly what he said he would do is what we are building on. People are coming whose names we do not know yet. God already knows them. We are building the thing they are going to walk into and setting the seat they are going to sit in.Scripture references: Isaiah 54:1-2, Luke 14:15-23, Ephesians 2:20-22, Acts 2:42-47URF WEBSITE: ➤ http://www.urfellowship.comSOCIALS: ➤ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/urfellowship/➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/urfellowship